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Issue: Vol. 54 No. 2: 21 Aug. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-08-21
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.54.2.4
Page range: 58-60
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First record and host identification of Echthrodelphax rufus Olmi, 1984 in Japan (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae)

Saitama Museum of Natural History, Nagatoro 1417-1, Nagatoro, Saitama, 369-1305 Japan.
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395 Japan
parasitic wasp planthopper host record

Abstract

Echthrodelphax rufus Olmi, 1984 is reported from the central Honshu, Japan. The female and male of the species were reared from the nymph of Tropidocephala brunneipennis Signoret, 1860. The diagnosis and illustration of both sexes of Echthrodelphax species and parasitized host are presented.

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